Once we have this first release of the spec out the door, I'd
like to propose that we look at three other issues that surround
building portable binaries under Linux:

1) A standard mechanism to enable vsync-locked-swapbuffers.

   The new nVidia OpenGL-for-Linux uses a different environment
   variable from Mesa (under 3Dfx) - which is probably not
   supported at all for non-3Dfx cards. Dunno what everyone
   else does.

   We need a standard - or at least a standardized way to hint
   that we'd like a locked swap (there may well be cards out
   there that just can't do it).

2) A standard way to set up gamma-correction for 3D.

3) A standard way to turn off window borders under *ALL*
   current window managers.

I appreciate that some of these are not directly OpenGL-related,
but they are things that OpenGL applications will need to have
standardized.

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